Healthy Communities of Opportunity: Create and maintain opportunity-rich communities in all neighborhoods and all regions of the country through strong networks and social capital, equitable development, and infrastructure investments that enable low-income people and communities of color to thrive.

Just Society: Build power and expand agency to ensure that all systems and institutions are just, free of racial bias, and lead to a vibrant democracy where all, especially the most vulnerable, can participate and prosper.

PolicyLink succeeds by weaving together four essential functions:

Advocacy that advances policy change at all levels of government and across sectors.

Applied research and communications that build public and political will for inclusion, justice, and broadly shared prosperity.

Constituency and network engagement that empowers leaders to advance equity.

Implementation capacity that connects local innovations to policy; and provides stakeholders with needed data and tools.